Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: FPAs and 'swallowing vomit' - the lot of the CTU
Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff was kept waiting by the Workplace Relations Minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, at the CTU's biennial conference in Wellington on Wednesday. It was either prophetic or to be expected. Wagstaff had to improvise while he waited for the m...
Peters to unions: strikes not helpful; no word on Fair Pay Agreements
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters used his first-ever address to a Council of Trade Unions national conference to chide the union movement for striking more under a Labour-led than a National-led government. He also made clear that his New Zealand First party is nowhere nea...
CTU pressures govt for Fair Pay Agreements
The trade union movement will pile pressure on the government today to make progress on its proposals to introduce Fair Pay Agreements legislation, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will say only that the government will make announcements on its intentions "shortly". That cou...
US-Japan trade deal robs NZ exporters of CPTPP advantage
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand beef and cheese exporters to Japan will be robbed of the recently acquired advantage over US producers, who will gain access to the high-value market on the same terms as CPTPP signatories, despite the US walking away f...
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